Medical Malpractice

job description health care assistant?

does anyone know the job description of hca (health care assistant) on hospital ward please

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1. You would be assisting nurses by washing patients, handing out food. some get trained to do temperatures and pulses and also take blood!
2. I'm a care assistant in a residential home and I should think that on a ward, it will be pretty much the same thing. Taking the patients (who need help) to the toilet, assisting them with personal hygiene and meals, that kind of thing.
3. hey! well I take health & social care at college and I think the general job of a health care assistant is to help out Nurses with little jobs such as cleaning up certain things or helping them with a patient if they need it. Just the little jobs really but it would still be interesting :) i'm not 100% sure but hope that's kinda helped you.
4. yes typically you do all the flunky work for the nurses .but on the real side it is a good thing to get into try ask your employer to send you for a cmt that is where u just give meds
5. well it depends on your health authority but on our ward the hca have all done nvqs level 2 and 3 ...... general care of patients,feeding /changing/bathing/toileting hair/nail care...... dressing wounds taking bloods/blood pressure/temperatures filling in care plans /charts removing stitches/staples catheter/stoma care inserting and removing catheters to name just a few they work under supervision of a trained nurse ....and never give medication... they are a valued member of our team ....... hope this gives you some idea... you wouldn't expect to do all this without your nvq......national vocational qualification ....you are sent on courses to be trained........